Beautiful Riviera Nayarit, Mexico sets the hot and steamy stage for battle as 36 Challenge alumni along with some fresh faces to fight it out for $300,000 in cash and prizes. Teams are split between Veterans vs. Rookies. TJ Lavin & Sonia Kruger returns as hosts as they guides the teams through a series of wild challenges and intense Gauntlets; where teammates face off to avoid elimination and stay until the Final Challenge. The winning team will split $300,000 in prize money and the losing team goes home with nothing! Insane challenges, heart-stopping Gauntlets, crazy fights, surprising alliances, unexpected departures and more hook-ups than ever - it's all going down in The Gauntlet!

Each team participates in numerous challenges, which are followed by an elimination round — "The Gauntlet." The winning team of each daily challenge is safe from elimination. The winning team must select one member of the opposite team to be Immune from The Gauntlet. They must also select one player from the losing team to go in, while the losing team will have to pick from their own. Players cannot be immune twice in a row.